SREcon24 Europe/Middle East/Africa

Thomas Fricke


Let us have look into the resource consumption of data centers and collect the current state of knowledge. There will be more questions than answers but predictions can be made because all resources have their limits.

The increase has already been exponential for years. With the AI hype, the demand for energy, cooling, water and other resources has increased dramatically.

The existing GPU based computing paradigm cuts hard into the standard design of data centers and demands other ways of cooling.


https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24emea/presentation/fricke